Blogging with Summer Institute 2008

Good morning and a very happy Tuesday to all you writers ready to rock the house!
Writing into the Day:
Let’s try something a little different today: Image Explosion
Here’s the poem we will work with:
“The Names”
Billy Collins
Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw [...]

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So how was our first week together? Check out our slideshow.
Writing into the morning:
Part I: Mapmaking
Make a map of the earliest neighborhood you can remember.
Include as much detail as you can.
Who lived there? What were the secret places? Where were your friends? Where did the weird people live? Where were the off-limits places?…
Part [...]

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Good morning…. Remember our week ends on a Thursday with a celebration. We made it! How does it feel?
Shout out to my mom. She turned 90 this morning!
Writing into the Day:  The History of My Name
Reading: “My Name” from the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros to begin
Digital Documenter Paulette

Shared with Flock – [...]

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Good morning. Week One is almost over. Can you believe that?
Writing into the Day with Mary…Focus Our Writing Lives
Write about a bad writing memory?
Start freewriting using “I remember…” as your prompt.
Digital Documenter Mary:

Log: Barbara
The Summer 08 Tour – The Amazing Race to the Writing Pieces
Itinerary for July 8, 2008
8:30 am [...]

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Writing into the Day
Revisiting Tom’s Workshop: The Professional Piece
What is an episode from your teaching life? Why share out?
A life in teaching is a stitched-together affair, a crazy quilt of odd pieces and scrounged materials, equal parts invention and imposition.
To make a life in teaching is largely to find your [...]

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